Understanding UPS and FedEx Surcharges: How CustomBoxes.io Helps Customers Avoid Additional Fees
Shipping costs can significantly impact a business’s bottom line, especially with carriers like UPS and FedEx imposing surcharges for oversized boxes, dimensional weight, and girth. At CustomBoxes.io, we understand that shipping costs are a pass-through expense for our customers. That’s why we’ve implemented strategies to help you avoid these fees while maintaining the quality and integrity of your shipments.
Here’s how we’re actively reducing shipping costs for you—and making the shipping process easier for everyone involved.
How We Help You Avoid Dimensional Weight (DIM) Surcharges
Dimensional weight pricing is calculated based on the size of the package rather than its actual weight. To avoid excessive DIM charges, we’ve optimized how we ship our products:
- For boxes exceeding 8x8x8 inches (24 inches in total dimensions), we split shipments into smaller boxes.
- For example, a 10x10x10 box is shipped in 2 smaller shipments to stay under DIM weight thresholds, saving you money without compromising delivery timelines.
How We Reduce Girth Oversize Charges
Surcharges for girth are triggered when a package exceeds certain size limits. By rethinking our shipping strategy, we’ve successfully minimized these fees:
- When shipping 14x14x14 boxes, we transitioned from 2 boxes measuring 30x30x16 inches to 5 boxes measuring 30x30x6 inches.
- This adjustment reduced shipping costs by 30%, ensuring the savings are passed directly to our customers.
Making Shipping Easier for Everyone
Breaking shipments into smaller boxes doesn’t just save you money—it also improves the overall shipping experience. Smaller packages are:
- Easier for customers to move and manage when they receive their orders.
- Simpler for employees to handle during packaging and fulfillment.
- More convenient for FedEx and UPS drivers, enabling faster and safer delivery processes.
By prioritizing practical packaging solutions, we’re streamlining operations at every stage of the supply chain.
Our Shipment Splitting Strategy
We’ve developed a precise approach to break down larger shipments into smaller ones, based on size categories:
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8x8x8 to 12x12x12 (24–36 inches total dimensions)
- Split into 2 boxes for cost-efficiency.
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12x12x12 to 14x14x14 (36–40 inches total dimensions)
- Split into 3 boxes to avoid girth oversize charges.
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Over 14x14x14 (greater than 40 inches total dimensions)
- Split into 4–5 boxes, significantly reducing shipping fees despite increasing the number of packages.
This method allows us to avoid surcharges while maintaining predictable shipping costs and easier handling.
Why This Matters to You
Unlike other packaging providers that might leave you to handle shipping logistics, we take care of everything. By controlling how packages are shipped, we ensure you avoid costly surcharges, giving you:
- Lower overall shipping costs
- Transparent pricing without surprise fees
- Simplified handling, making shipments easier for everyone from your team to the end recipient
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Our mission is to provide affordable, sustainable packaging solutions without compromising on value. By managing shipping logistics in-house, we help your business save on costs, avoid unnecessary surcharges, and keep operations streamlined.